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1989 Sep 1 - 1990 Nov 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3741
European Policy (European Monetary System (EMS): economic and monetary union) (Part 5) [filed out of sequence]

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jul 24
Classification: Secret
Page count: 434
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89 Oct 23 Mo Key European Policy: Turnbull note for MT (Alan Walters article/interview) [MT: "advisers ADVISE, Ministers DECIDE policy"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 26 Th Major European Policy: Nick Ridley PS letter to Treasury ('EMU') [Ridley comments on Chancellor's draft paper] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 1 We Major European Policy: Nick Ridley PS letter to Treasury (Chancellor's speech on EMU) [Ridley thinks an "evolutionary approach" on Lawson's lines would lead to more business being conducted in DM] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 1 We Major European Policy: Sir Geoffrey Howe PS letter to Treasury ("Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor's draft Commons speech; could be construed as extending "into the distant future" our entry into ERM] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 31 Tu Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor's draft Commons speech; MT - 'excellent'] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 30 Mo Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor's paper for ECOFIN, in final form] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 3 Fr Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ('EMU') [press reports on British participation in High Level Group; line to take] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 3 Fr Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Article for the Sunday Correspondent") [Chancellor's article on EMU; MT - "Excellent, straightforward & direct"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 13 Fr Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("EMU: Chancellor's paper for ECOFIN") [seeks MT's view on latest draft] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 17 Tu Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("EMU: Chancellor's paper for ECOFIN") [as circulated to other colleagues] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 24 Tu Major European Policy: Gray minute for MT ("Meeting on EMU: 25 October") [suggests she look again at Chancellor's draft ECOFIN paper; MT - "I am quite happy with the paper"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Sep 5 Tu Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Economic and Monetary Union") [line Lawson proposes to take at informal ECOFIN] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Sep 13 We Major European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Informal ECOFIN Council at Antibes") [Lawson proposing to circulate paper on competing currencies in time for 13 Nov meeting] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 11 We Major European Policy: Governor Bank of England letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (comments on draft paper for November ECOFIN) [suggests arguing that Stage 1 must be completed before attention addressed to Stages 2 and 3, which will appeal to Pohl] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 2 Th Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("EMU debate: 2 November") [latest draft of Chancellor's Commons speech; CDP - "very good"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 19 Th Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("CDU Economic Council") ["Poehl's arguments for not going too fast on monetary union have gained ground in CDU"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 24 Tu Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German views on economic and monetary union (EMU)") [Kohl keeping his options open on conditions to be met before Germany will support an IGC] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 2 Th Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: UK paper") [Chancellor's message and paper delivered; conversations with Waigel, Tietmeyer and Kuehn] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 4 Sa Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: UK paper") [German reactions - "stress laid on keeping the UK in the debate"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 9 Th Major European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: UK paper") [Pohl publicly praises UK paper; growing German scepticism about common currency noted in Die Welt editorial] [declassified Jul 2018]